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2024-06-21 21:06:51

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The only reason I didn't pull the trigger on the M-series iPads is Apple's stupid decision to lock them to iPadOS (and/or to not make a touchscreen MacBook Air).
Samsung Dex is alright, but it's no full Win11. I don't see any reason to buy any other ultrabook or tablet device until Apple gets the memo or Samsung starts making Galaxy Tabs with Windows.
It took a while, but someobdy finally figured it out, and nobody will know because MS is SO bad at marketing.

2024-06-21 20:55:52

Sooo... Windows on ARM kinda rocks?
I wanted a media device upgrade and went for a Surface Pro 11 and after many years of Windows 2-in-1s having a Windows tablet that just... turns on like a phone and goes to sleep like a phone and has 10 hours of screen-on battery like a phone is weirdly cool and slightly surreal.
I don't know that I think it makes as much sense for a working laptop or a desktop replacement, but the Surface Pro specifically it's a no-brainer.
#Surface #Windows #tech

2024-05-22 20:00:14

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It is not a problem of hardware capacity, though. Even a low-end last-gen mobile RTX dGPU dwarfs the TOPS of the "copilot plus" CPUs MS is restricting this to. It's a branding exercise, just like, say, Nvidia frame gen.
Why they thought this nonsense was a selling point is beyond me, but apparently they did.

2024-05-22 09:46:20

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Will you? At the time the visuals of FF were enough to make me crave it, but I remember looking at FF2 and being very ok with not playing it.
Part of it was better beat'em ups coming out in the intervening years, but it also looks and feels fairly boring even out of context. The exact same thing happened to Golden Axe, too.

2024-05-19 18:10:20

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I've been having this conversation a lot. The scary part is less trying to make people understand that they need to fact check any automated response they get from LLMs, the scary part is that nobody seemed to realize they already had to do that with the old version from dumb algorithms.
In any case, the tech is fascianting, the applications they are trying to deploy for it often range from conceptually broken to inefficient, but that doesn't mean it's useless.